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First aid convoy in days arrives in Syria's Sweida

A convoy of about 40 aid lorries entered Sweida on Wednesday through a reopened humanitarian corridor, in the first delivery in four days to Syria's embattled southern province. Red Crescent sources ...

After Weeks of Sectarian Clashes in Syria, an Uneasy Truce Takes Hold

The fighting has stopped in the southern city of Sweida, three weeks after a deadly eruption of violence. But the area ...

The Druze are a tightly knit community – and the violence in Syria is triggering fears in Lebanon

Lebanon has a long history of sectarian violence, and the recent events in Syria are causing alarm among its religious ...
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The Israeli-Druze Alliance of Necessity

Last month, clashes erupted between Druze militia groups and Sunni tribes in Syria’s southern province of Sweida. The enmity ...
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The Sweida operation: How a lightning offensive became a war

When Syrian President Ahmad Al Shara was considering sending tanks and troops to the mostly Druze province of Sweida amid ...

Syria’s president has opened up a hornet’s nest and it’s tearing the country apart

But its involvement risks deepening sectarian tensions. Israeli troops have seized parts of southern Syria, violating a 1974 ...

Fresh clashes break out in Syria as the interim government struggles to ease tensions

New outbreaks of violence overnight into Sunday have rocked Syria at two distinct flashpoints, straining a fragile ceasefire ...
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Renewed clashes in Sweida between the Druze and government security forces. Four killed

Syrian state-run news agency SANA accused Druze groups loyal to influential spiritual leader Hikmat al-Hijri of breaching the ...
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Violence erupts in increasingly tense Syria

New outbreaks of violence overnight into Sunday rocked Syria at two distinct flashpoints, straining a fragile ceasefire and ...